Hose-supporter button and method of making same



I.. D. CHRISTIE.

HOSE SUPPORTEH BUTTON AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME. APPUCATION FILED JUNE l?, 1921.

1,423,599. Patented July 25, 1922.

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LEWS D j CHRISTIE, OIE' NICHOLS, CONNIlGCLIGTl,y ASSIGNOR TO .ALBERT OPPENHEIVM, OF NEX/ifr YORK, N. Y.

HOSE-SPPORTER BUTTON .AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

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Application filed June 1'?,-

To vall tti/1.0022` t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Lewis D. CHRISTIE, a citizenof the United States, residing` at Nichols, county of F airiield, State of Connecticut, have invented an In'xprovement in llose-Supporter Buttons and Methods ot Making Same, of which the following is a specification.

lThis invention relates to .clasp-studs such as are used in garment supportersand the like, and to the method of making the saine, and has Jfor an object to provide an improved stud consisting oi. a head, shank and base, which shall be formed mechanically 'from a blank of wire, and particularly to. provide anew and improved method of applying the rubber collet to the metal-stud to complete the same.`

`With these ends in View I have devised the novel wire-stud and the method of making the same which 1 will now describe.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a view in elevation illustrating the use of my novel stud in a garter. Fig. .2 is` a, section on line 2-2 oi Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the stud detached. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the rubber collet which encloses the head and shank. Fig. 5 is an elevation looking from the leitet Figs. 3

. and 6. Fig. 6 is an elevation looking from the bottom. Fig. 7 is an elevation looking from the right. of Figs. 3 and G. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the stud detached. Fig. 9 is a perspective view atsubstantially right angles to Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a perspective view showing the stud with the head or eye elevated or turned up to receive the collet. .Figc 11 is a perspective view of the stud with collet in-place on the shank but with the head or eye still turned up and Fig. 12 is a perspective View of the completed stud with the collet in place and the head or eye bent down into position yin the flaring recess in the top of the collet.,

Reference numeral 1 denotes the band of a garter which may be of any ordinary material or design, and 2 the ordinary metallic clasping loop, which in use engages the stud as clearly shown. The clasping loop is at* tached to the band in any ordinary or preferred manner, as by a loop 3 of textile web, and the stud is carried by a longer loop 4:

Specification of Letters Patent.

1921. Serial N0. 478,281.

ot textile web, which is also attached to the band.

The stud comprises a head or eye 5, a shank 6, and a base 7. The head which in the linished stud lies approximately paralled to the plane of the base, is formed from the portion of a wire blank adjacent one end 8 thereof, said blank being curved to form an Patented July 25, 1922. y

approximately circular head of the required Y size.4 In forming the stud, however, the

head is not made parallel to the base, but extends upwardly at an angle or is elevated above the top or" the shank asshown in Fig. 10, and is not bent down to the position parallel to the base as shown in Figs. 2 to 9 until after the rubber collet has been placed on the shank. Just under the head the blank is bent inward and downward at 9 to form one strand of the shank, it being noted that the head overhangs the shank. At the lower end of the shank the blank is bent outwardv at 10, at approximately a right angle and is then curved and recurved at 11 to form onelend of the web-slot 12. It is again curved and recurvedat 13 to form the lother end Vof web-slot 12 and extends inward to the base ofthe shank where it is bent upward to form a second strand 1li of the shank. It is then curved and recurved or bent uponl itself at 15 immediately under the head 5 and extends downward to form the third strand 16 ofk the shank. The blank n then extends outward at approximately right and recurving the blank at 19 and the blank then extends inward to the base of the shank and is bent upward. to. form. the fourth strand 20 of the shank, the end 21 terminating where it will be immediately under the head after said head is bent down to horizontal position. The strand 20 lies closely adjacent the strand 9, and when the head is in the raised position, as shown in Fig. 10, the end 21 is in line with one side of the head 5 and therefore will not interfere with the application of the collet now to be described.

The stud is completed by placing thereon a yielding collet 22 which is molded from rubber. The upper end of the collet is enlarged as at 23, and. is provided with a rccess 24 which receives the head 5 of the stud, the recess being perferably large enough to receive the head so that the latter will lie wholly below the upper end of the collet after it is bent downward to its final position. The ordinary method of applying the collet is to force it over the head of the stud while this head is in the position it occupies in the finished stud; that is, substantially parallel with the base. Vhen the collet is put on with the head in that position the lower or smaller body portion thereof must be stretched to at least the external diameter of the head. lilith my method of applying the collet, however, the head is turned up as shown in Fig. YlO when the collet is ap plied, and is then turned down with the recess in the top of the collet as shown in Figs. 2 and l2. In slipping the collet over this head while it is turned up the collet is not .stretched nearly as much as in the old method as it flattens out in passing over the head. As it is not stretched excessively it fits the shank more snugly. Furthermore, after the head has been turned down it holds the collet in place more firmly than it does when the collet is applied by the usual method. lt is of course immaterial whether the collet is threaded onto the stud or the stud is inserted in the collet.

The stud is attached to web-loop d by passing one end of the loop downward through one of the slots l2 or 1S., then across and upward through the other slot, then around backward and under the stud, the ends of the loop being stitched or otherwise secured to the garter band.

Having thus set forth the nature of my invention, what I claim is i l. The method of making clasp-studs which consists in forming (the stud comprising a base, a shank and a substantially circular head from a wire blank with the head upturned at an acute angle to the shank, then slipping a tubular collet over the head and onto the shank, and then bending the head down to hold the collet in place.

2. The method of making clasp-studs which consists in forming the stud comprising a base, a shank and a substantially circular head from a wire blank with the head upturned at an acute angle to the shank, threading a tubular collet having a flared upper end over the head and onto the shank, and bending the head down into ythe recess in the flared upper end of the collet.

3. The method of making clasp-studs which consists in forming the stud comprising a base, a shank and a head from'a metal blank with the head upturned with respect to the shankj kthen passing a tubular collet over the head onto the shank, and then bending the head into contact with the end of the collet.

et. The method of making clasp-studs which consists in forming from a wire blank the stud comprising a base, a shank and a head with the head upturned with respect to the shank, threading a tubular collet over the head and onto the shank, and bending the head toward the collet to retain it in place on the shank. i

5. A clasp-stud formed from a wire blank yand ycomprising an approximately circular head formed at one end of the blank, the blank being then bent downward to form one strand of a shank, the blank being then bent outward and curved and recurved twice to forni a web-slot, then bent upward to form a second strand of the shank and bent downward upon itself immediately under the head to forma third strand of the shank, then bent outward and curved and recurved upon itself twice to form a second web-slot and finally bent upward to rform the fourth strand of the shank and terminating under the head.

6. A clasp-stud formed from a wire blank with its mid-length bent upon itself to form two strands of a shank7 the parts of the blank being then bent outward at substantially afright angle and then bent away .from each other and curved and recurved 'twice to form web-slots, and then bent inward and upward to complete the shank, one of said parts being bent to form an approximately circular head overhanging the shank and the other half terminating under said head.

lntestimony whereof l aiiiX my signature.

LEWIS D. Cl-IRSTIE. 

